Feb 19, 2025
Silence. For seven days, Job’s friends sat with him in the dust, bearing witness to his grief. No explanations. No attempts to fix what had been shattered. Just presence. And in that stillness, there was something holy. But then—they spoke. And the words,...
Feb 18, 2025
“Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.” —Job 2:13 From the time I was old enough to leave my home, I have been in church. My mother was the organist...
Feb 17, 2025
Grief Has Many Faces “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” —Psalm 56:8 (NLT) Grief has many names. Some losses announce themselves loudly, unraveling life in a way that...
Feb 14, 2025
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay! 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 – “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles.” Picture grief not as an enemy to conquer, but...
Feb 13, 2025
When Happily Ever After Is Not the Ending Once upon a time, in a world not so far away, there lived a people enchanted by fairy tales. They believed every story should end with “and they lived happily ever after.” Heroes were expected to conquer all, with...
Feb 12, 2025
Wrestling with God Psalm 22:1-2 – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but find no rest.” When faced with...
